Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 37
Probably she is the daughter of a neighbouring chief, for it is indispensable in her case that the blood of the ruling line should flow in her veins.
Who acts: alliance, chief, blood · What happens: be, neighbour, flow · To what, where: daughter, case, veins
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alliance, chief, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 daughter | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 daughter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chief | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 8 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 chief | amod |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 indispensable | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 indispensable | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 indispensable | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 indispensable | cop |
| 14 | indispensable | indispensable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 case | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 case | nmod:poss |
| 17 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 indispensable | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 flow | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blood | det |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flow | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 line | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 line | det |
| 23 | ruling | ruling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 line | compound |
| 24 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blood | nmod |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 flow | aux |
| 26 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 indispensable | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 veins | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 veins | nmod:poss |
| 29 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flow | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | alliance | the daughter | of a neighbouring chief; probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | chief | alliance's case | indispensable property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | flow | should | the blood of the ruling line | alliance's veins | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vein=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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